Hey all – wanted to let you know that our next special guest will be calling in at 6:30 PM – Jeremy, “The Pwnerer” himself, will be gracing our presence with the dulcet tones of his voice. start your question asking now – we’ve given you lots of advance notice.

So we just got off the phone with Sean Baptiste, Community Manager for Harmonix, makers of Rockband 2, and they have offered a copy of the Rockband 2 bundle for us to raffle off. The rules are as follows:

For every $20 donated you get one ballot. At the end of the drive we will hold a raffle for the rockband, based on all the ballots we’ve collected. All ballots are retroactive, so you’re not out of luck if you’ve already donated. I will be combining donations by name, as well, so if you’ve done two 10$ donations, that will count as 20. If you’ve donated 15, donate 5 more and that’ll count as 20. If you’ve donated 50, 10 more will take you to 60 (and you’ll get 3 ballots). You get the drift. We can do either a x360 or a PS3 version of the game, so as long as you’ve got one of the two you’re golden. Best of luck, everyone!

*NOTE* A couple people have been asking wether this contest is open to more people than just those who live within North America (Canada and US, for anyone who might not know that) We have emailed Sean to find out.

Around 4:00, we’ll be getting a call from Kristin Lindsay, the Project Manager for the Child’s Play charity.

If you have any questions for Kristin, post them in a comment on this post and we’ll ask her on-air!

Thanks for watching everyone! We’ve had lots of community involvement, and that’s amazing. If you want to help promote Desert Bus further, check out the Digg article. Digg us and post some comments! Here’s the link: http://digg.com/comedy/Second_Annual_Desert_Bus_Live_Feed

Our Friend Sean Baptiste, community manager from Harmonix will be calling in around 3:00 pm. His company makes Rock Band, and surely you have questions for him. Personally, I want to know how long ’til we get Pinkerton for DLC.

Post your questions in the comments for this post!

Thanks again to John from What They Play for coming on and chatting with us . . . and for the link-in!

While John had little information on the mysterious EGM Desert Bus preview of 10 or so years ago, we’re interested to know more. Unfortunately, we don’t know the date or issue number . . . but if you have a copy and can somehow replicate it for us, we’d appreciate it a lot! stuff@desertbus.org

The endless desert really captures the lonliness of desert bus experience.

You crazy people!

TWELVE THOUSAND!

Our most bearded member, one Paul Saunders, has challenged the internet.

He doesn’t think you all have it in you. Oh yeah. No way are you going to donate more than last year. Darn right. In fact, he’s so sure, that he’s putting his manly beard on the line.

So, if we raise more than $22,805, the beard goes.

Here is a photoshopped projection of how he could look afterwards.

Could this be the face of Paul?